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Friday, November 11, 2011

Chocolate Show NY 2011!

You can eat way more chocolate at this years Chocolate Show this weekend (Thursday - Sunday 10 - 6pm Metropolitan Pavillion 125 West 18th Street) Swedish chocolatier, Fika Choklad NYC is there again... Plenty of strawberries to dip... Loads of books on chocolate and pastry...

Learn how to dip a pretzel in chocolate at Cotton Tree Lodge - or go there for a week (in Belize) and make your own chocolate, bean-to-bar.

Get a 6-year-old to show you how to take pictures with your iPod Touch...

Bernachon, Lyon is at the NY show for the first time. You can't even find their bars in Paris except at L'Etoile d'Or. I bought a 'Jour et nuit' bar - a combo of milk on one side and dark on the other...

It seems as though the Chocolate show was just last month! Have you ever had a German candy bar (nothing special and sold like our Hershey bars everywhere) by Milka - the flavor that is milk chocolate with ground hazelnuts in it (no big pieces of nut, but a very subtle paste of hazelnut throughout the chocolate)? It's not available in KC but a German friend helped me get some eons ago. Amazing!

I tried the Vosges bacon chocolate a couple of months ago. I really wasn't a fan. I wanted to like it, but it wasn't for me. OTOH, your day looks fabulous, and what a haul you have to enjoy in the days to come.

I tried the Vosges too and didn't fall for it. This one was just a creamy dark chocolate on narrow strips of bacon - crunchy with a bit of smokiness + salt.Not something you'd want everyday but fun and not too weird.

Paris Letters

♥carol gillott♥

l'Ile Saint Louis, Paris, Ile de France, France

Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5. I'm still at it, now tripping over cobblestones, living in a 6th-floor garret on l'Ile Saint-Louis, Paris. Read Parisbreakfast with a hot chocolate and croissant.
I paint Paris breakfasts.